Diversity Management, News and Updates
More people than ever before are filing — and winning — family responsibilities discrimination lawsuits against their employers. The number of family responsibilities discrimination suits has risen by 269 percent between 2005 and 2015, according to a 2016 report by the Center for WorkLife Law. The idea of one spouse…
If the United States government were a company and President Trump an employer, his tweet in which he told four congresswomen of color to “go back” to their home countries would constitute as workplace discrimination. Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortex (D-N.Y.), Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) were…
In what appeared to be an affront to the LGBT community, the U.S. Department of Commerce last week omitted existing workplace discrimination language that made many believe the administration was redefining LGBT protections. The Commerce Department’s 2017 Secretarial Statement on Equal Employment Opportunity, emailed to department employees Thursday, differed from…
UPDATE: 9:30 a.m. ET July 7, 2016 Gretchen Carlson’s lawyers released a statement Thursday refuting Roger Ailes’ claim that Carlson was fired due “her disappointingly low ratings,” saying her “total viewership was up 33 percent year to date and up 23 percent in the key demographic.” Advertising AgeconfirmedCarlson’s Nielsen ratings,…
By Julissa Catalan Alabama is fighting tooth and nail to deny LGBT rights, and now Kansas is taking a step backward as well. Republican governor Sam Brownback has issued an executive order cancelling a 2007 order by then-Governor Kathleen Sebelius that protected members of the LGBT community from being fired…
By Albert Lin Attorney General Eric Holder issued a memo on Thursday instructing all Department of Justice component heads and U.S. Attorneys to support claims by transgender people in Title VII employee-discrimination cases. This reverses the DOJ’s previous position, stated in 2006 litigation, that Title VII’s sex-discrimination clause excluded discrimination…
By Chris Hoenig The Supreme Court, in a pair of decisions handed down on Monday, narrowed the rules and definitions for bringing lawsuits based on workplace discrimination. In a 5-to-4 ruling, the justices restricted the definition of a supervisor to someone with direct hiring and firing powers and the authority…
